Linda Scarangella McNenly. Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney.

2014 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-187
Author(s):  
David M. Wrobel
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 313-333
Author(s):  
Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska

Abstract The article juxtaposes two perspectives guiding the perception of ethnographic shows, namely, a contemporary and an earlier one. The article uses the example of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, staged in 1906 in the Polish territories under Austrian rule. Deriving from present criticisms of ethnographic shows and their interpretation through the prism of colonial studies, the author examines the types of reception of such performances met in places in which the inhabitants did not identify with colonialism. Analyzing reactions to the Wild West shows published in the Polish-language dailies, the author offers an interpretation of these performances as foreign, distant from the local social context, and evoking antipatriotic acts. While presently, criticism of ethnographic shows inspires reflection on human rights and equality, the article looks at how the philippics directed against Buffalo Bill’s performances contributed to the promotion of patriotic attitudes by the intellectual elites of the time.


2001 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-228
Author(s):  
Roger A. Hall

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and his Wild West show have not wanted for ink. There are Cody's own autobiographical accounts of his frontier and his theatrical adventures, Don Russell's well-researched standards on Cody's life and the Wild West shows, Sarah Blackstone's examination of the economic basis of the Wild West show in general, Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May's pictorial biography of Cody, Paul Reddin's overview of Wild West images, and a host of other, related books. In fact, there have been so many books written about “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Wild West shows, it is somewhat remarkable that Joy Kasson has found such a productive new angle on the western hero and his dramatic presentations.


2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
L. G. Moses ◽  
Paul Reddin
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